plant 1–1 1/4 ft. high; stem stout; leaves cauline, suberect, 6–8, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, conduplicate, sheathing at the base, 1 1/2–2 1/4 in. long; scapes 1–1 1/4 ft. high, with a few leaf-like sheaths above; spikes oblong, 2 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, dense, many-flowered; bracts ovate-lanceolate, very acuminate, 6–10 lin. long; pedicels 1/3– 1/2 in. long; flowers small, rather fleshy; dorsal sepal broadly ovate-oblong, very obtuse, deeply concave, about 2 lin. long; spur oblong, very obtuse, straight, more than half as long as the limb; lateral sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, about 2 1/2 lin. long; petals obliquely ovate, obtuse and slightly twisted at the apex, about 1 lin. long; lip subspathulate, obtuse, fleshy, 1 1/2 lin. long, limb broadly elliptic, obtuse, with a thickened median nerve, minutely papillose; column short; anther reflexed; rostellum 3-lobed, with rounded divaricate side lobes and short triangular plicate front lobe; stigma nearly trapezoid, with thickened margin. null
